Parses date as dateTime defined by XML Schema and converts it to a Time object. The format is restricted version of the format defined by ISO 8601.

ArgumentError is raised if date is not compliant with the format or Time class cannot represent specified date.

See #xmlschema for more information on this format.

Source Code

# File time.rb, line 351
def xmlschema(date)
  if /\A\s*
      (-?\d+)-(\d\d)-(\d\d)
      T
      (\d\d):(\d\d):(\d\d)
      (\.\d*)?
      (Z|[+-]\d\d:\d\d)?
      \s*\z/ix =~ date
    year = $1.to_i
    mon = $2.to_i
    day = $3.to_i
    hour = $4.to_i
    min = $5.to_i
    sec = $6.to_i
    usec = 0
    usec = $7.to_f * 1000000 if $7
    if $8
      zone = $8
      year, mon, day, hour, min, sec =
        apply_offset(year, mon, day, hour, min, sec, zone_offset(zone))
      Time.utc(year, mon, day, hour, min, sec, usec)
    else
      Time.local(year, mon, day, hour, min, sec, usec)
    end
  else
    raise ArgumentError.new("invalid date: #{date.inspect}")
  end
end